Cooking class for teens

Chef Gail Sokol, an adjunct culinary instructor at Schenectady County Community College and author of “About Professional Baking,” is offering a class this fall for aspiring chefs ages 14-18. The program is titled “Five Weeks to a Gourmet Meal.”

Each week students will prepare one course from a gourmet meal: pork wonton with orange hoisin sauce; mixed green salad with balsamic vinaigrette and sesame seed flatbread crackers; biscuits with bacon and butter roses; apricot and currant chicken with garlic-lemon potatoes and chocolate eclairs.

The class meets 9 a.m. to noon at SCCC on the following Saturdays: Oct. 20, Nov. 3, Nov. 10, Nov. 17, Dec. 1. The cost is $275. For more information or to register, call the Office of Continuing Education at 381-1315.